Happiness 2: imagine your "best possible future self"
Professor Laura King asked participants in an experiment to visit her lab for 4 consecutive days, and to spend 20 minutes writing about their “best possible future selves"
Compared with those who just wrote about their lives, the participants had happier moods and even reported fewer physical ailments several months later
Those who persist derive more benefit
Why? Because it asks a question relevant to your lives, it starts the process of building today and, through the medium of writing, it helps you discover and structure your ideas
Happiness 2: imagine your "best possible future self"
see: L.A.King, 2001